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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 14, 2025

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B12 during periods of less animal product consumption.

I've tried it long time ago, unfortunately gave me really bad hormonal acne (went away after I stopped taking it)

I'm intrigued by this Selank thing. First time I've seen it. How did you hear about it?

It's been around for a long time, I've first read about it 10+ years ago when I was briefly interested in biohacking, but never got around to trying it. There's a 'chinese' peptide craze right now among techies and finance bros, I've finally decided to do a deep dive and try the one that I thought would benefit me most and it turned out pretty good so far.

Looks like Selank is a Russian invention though? If it's been around for that long, it should have been better known and regulated by now. I don't think I'll be able to buy it where I live, except as a 'research chemical'.

Yep, it is Russian and has been around since 1980s, but a lot of other peptides these days come from China and India. I'm assuming USA isn't interested in regulating stuff like that because it's so cheap so can't make much money off it. I also bought mine as 'research chemical' and had to mix it myself.

Hmm. Do you have to prove you're a researcher in any way?

Nope as far as I'm aware. I got mine off ebay, found a seller with lots of recent sales and went with it.

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